Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Mountain Park:
40.340020, -75.865303
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Mountain Park
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Berks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Mountain Park.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Mountain Park.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Luzerne County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Mountain Park [Luzerne County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Mountain Park is located in Jefferson County and lies 761 miles [1,224.7 km]<2> to the southwest of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Mountain Park.
Alberta
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Mountain Park.
Florida
Hernando County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Mountain Park [Hernando County].
Georgia
DeKalb County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Mountain Park [DeKalb County].
Fulton County
This Mountain Park is located in Fulton County and lies 637 miles [1,025.2 km]<2> to the southwest of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Mountain Park.
Gwinnett County
This Mountain Park is located in Gwinnett County and lies 638 miles [1,026.8 km] to the southwest of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Mountain Park.
Massachusetts
Hampden County
This Mountain Park is located in Hampden County and lies 213 miles [342.8 km]<2> to the northeast of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of Mountain Park.
New Mexico
Otero County
This Mountain Park is located in Otero County and lies 1,726 miles [2,777.7 km]<2> to the west of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Otero County community of Mountain Park.
North Carolina
Surry County
This Mountain Park is located in Surry County and lies 384 miles [618 km]<2> to the southwest of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Surry County community of Mountain Park.
Oklahoma
Kiowa County
This Mountain Park is located in Kiowa County and lies 1,318 miles [2,121.1 km]<2> to the west of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kiowa County community of Mountain Park.
Utah
Davis County
This Mountain Park is located in Davis County and lies 1,873 miles [3,014.3 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Mountain Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Mountain Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mountain Park ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Mountain Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mountain Park and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 53 miles [85.3 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Mountain Park to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 117 miles [188.3 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,787 miles [9,313.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,496 miles [10,454.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,372 miles [7,036.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Mountain Park could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mountain Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Mountain Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<6>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Mountain Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3400, Longitude: -75.8653 In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.086 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.752 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.634 degrees.